Starring <strong>Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Rahul Bose</strong> Directed by <strong>Kamal Haasan</strong> Rating: <strong>****</strong> First things first. Kamal Haasan’s enormously controversial film doesn’t hurt Muslim sentiments. In fact it doesn’t hurt the sentiments of any section of the people except those party-poopers who think having a ball at the movies went out of style with <em>Sholay</em> and <em>Chachi 420</em>.

Her last co-star was Ed Harris, no less, in the psychological thriller Man On A Ledge. Pooja Kumar who straddles two continents and cinema in Tamil, Telugu, Hollywood and also American television is not too pleased with the fact that her new film <em>Vishwaroop</em> has the hero performing the classical Indian dancing, and that too under the guidance of the redoubtable Pandit Birju Maharaj. Pooja who is a trained classical dancer apparently expressed a wish to do a spot of dancing. The request, we hear, was politely but firmly turned down.